Brian Thomas Sniffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not all jurisdictions recognize the ability of authors to put their > works into the public domain. Perhaps you could get him to release > the code under a very permissive license, such as the MIT/X11 license?
Having just read the license -- much easier if the text is included instead of linked -- it's clear this author has already considered that. > If that's not acceptable, a public-domain declaration is, I think, > good enough for Debian -- you should be perfectly clear packaging the code. It looks perfectly reasonable to distribute the PD parts of this package. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]